A Sea Of Red

Interesting that the husband knew. I wager she will just change her 'screen name' and keep going. Probably a little more discretion on her part too.

The running community is completely up in arms over this. I followed her closely during her career. It's kind of difficult to think of her accomplishments on the track right now, though.
I hope she gets it together for the sake of her daughter.

01LUGrad wrote:The running community is completely up in arms over this. I followed her closely during her career. It's kind of difficult to think of her accomplishments on the track right now, though.
I hope she gets it together for the sake of her daughter.

And when you say 'closely'........

01LUGrad wrote:The running community is completely up in arms over this. I followed her closely during her career. It's kind of difficult to think of her accomplishments on the track right now, though.
I hope she gets it together for the sake of her daughter.

Wasn't she the first female sub-4 miler? I had a friend who ran for K-State; she ran against her in the nationals several times.

rogers3 wrote:

01LUGrad wrote:The running community is completely up in arms over this. I followed her closely during her career. It's kind of difficult to think of her accomplishments on the track right now, though.
I hope she gets it together for the sake of her daughter.

Wasn't she the first female sub-4 miler? I had a friend who ran for K-State; she ran against her in the nationals several times.

There has never been a sub 4 minute female miler. The WR is 4:12 and change.

However, in 2000 Favor-Hamilton became the first American woman to run a sub 4 minute 1500 meters since Mary Slaney in 1983. She missed Slaney's American record by .28 seconds.

Isnt the 1500 technically considered the mile at the Olympic level?

BJWilliams wrote:Isnt the 1500 technically considered the mile at the Olympic level?

The one word answer would be no, but in the metric world of modern track and field, the 1500m is the closest thing to the old mile race, and is sometimes referred to as the "metric mile" Everyone knows though that it is over 100 meters shorter, and times are not comparable.

Fair enough...01, care to weigh in?

I guess she gives new meanings to the term, a fast woman!

olldflame wrote:

BJWilliams wrote:Isnt the 1500 technically considered the mile at the Olympic level?

The one word answer would be no, but in the metric world of modern track and field, the 1500m is the closest thing to the old mile race, and is sometimes referred to as the "metric mile" Everyone knows though that it is over 100 meters shorter, and times are not comparable.

This is correct. Basically everyone outside of the US runs the 1500m instead of the mile as they go through high school. The mile is really only run indoors in NCAA meets. Once outdoor track rolls around in the spring, you will rarely see a mile contested, especially at the NCAA and professional levels. There is growing interest in seeing the mile brought back in more non-championship meets here in the US. There is just something about an accomplished runner being able to say that they ran 3:5x for a mile. You don't see a bunch of guys jumping up and down after a big race yelling "I just broke 3:41.59!" (1500m equivalent of a 3:59.99 mile)

One of my former middle school/high school runners is in his second year at Georgia Tech. He ran 4:06 for the mile indoors at the ACC championship last year, but never had a chance to run a mile outdoors, where times are always faster because of having to run half as many turns. He probably won't quite get there this season, but I hope he gets a shot at it next year. It would be nice if some outdoor miles were available for guys like this.

I seem to recall that in Josh McDougal's Junior or Senior year we scheduled an outdoor meet with a mile run specifically to give him the opportunity to run a sub 4.................... which he proceeded to do.

There is a Christmas gift joke here......

olldflame wrote:I seem to recall that in Josh McDougal's Junior or Senior year we scheduled an outdoor meet with a mile run specifically to give him the opportunity to run a sub 4.................... which he proceeded to do.

This is true. They added the mile at the very last minute because Josh was feeling like he could break 4. There were 2 other finishers in the race. Meanwhile, the scheduled 1500m race had 25 finishers. http://www.liberty.edu/wwwadmin/globals ... evised.htm

Mile races are run in college meets, but they just aren't anywhere near as common as the 1500.

Here's a site launched by some guys who really want to see the mile brought back. Hence the site name: http://bringbackthemile.com/home

01LUGrad wrote:

olldflame wrote:I seem to recall that in Josh McDougal's Junior or Senior year we scheduled an outdoor meet with a mile run specifically to give him the opportunity to run a sub 4.................... which he proceeded to do.

This is true. They added the mile at the very last minute because Josh was feeling like he could break 4. There were 2 other finishers in the race. Meanwhile, the scheduled 1500m race had 25 finishers. http://www.liberty.edu/wwwadmin/globals ... evised.htm

Mile races are run in college meets, but they just aren't anywhere near as common as the 1500.

Here's a site launched by some guys who really want to see the mile brought back. Hence the site name: http://bringbackthemile.com/home

Thanks for the 1500 versus mile education! I had always assumed that 1600M was common, as well as the mile; obviously wrong on both accounts!